Huntsville gazette., 1887-01-08
NUMBER 5.
he was about right. AS said the only

he was about right. AS / said, the only
reason wrote the letters to the RepHbAcdn
and Globe was to prove him innocent. The
Globe treated me dirty mean by fixing up
my letter as if it was pack OF lies so
wrote another in Kansas City just before
left for the South, telling the editor OF
the mean way he had treated me, and
putting in more facts to show Fothering-
hams innocence. This was buried out in
the prairie, and left instructions with a
friend of NINE to nailiG aIt1r 30 }.440ls
or four days. start. Well, he was shad-
owed so closely by detectives that he
couldn't"
'sDid he know he was shadowed!'
ssCertainly he did; but he was married
and had a family and couldn't get out"
ssWas tnat Cooke"
81 don't want to answer that; but see
they dug the letter up, and it is published
this morning"
"About the robbery again. Were you
on the train when it was delayed for an
hour by
THE ROCK ON THE TRACK?"
ayes, was. Icould have got off then,
but wasn't near enough to my plant"
':Did you throw any clothes out Of the
car windowa"
eyes, there were some clothes thrown
out, believe"
soTell me how you left the train and es-
capped"
II got off the train at little crossing
about two miles this side of Pacific,
walked around the town and followed a
little road to the Missouri river bank. 1t
was eight or nine miles, and got to the
river by day break. l had my plant there,
so changed my clothing, cut off my mus
tache with scissors, got into the boat
and floated down the river. After had
gone about six miles I struck a sand-bar
and camped on it. | went through the
valise there, and, think, left some papers
on the bar. Did the Republican get the
packages of mortgages and drafts IsentP
Upon being answered in the affirmative,
he said ~ Ididn'twantto to destroy any papers
at all. / stopped on the sand-bar all day,
sleeping most of the time When l woke
up had the rheumatism in my left ankle
so bad that l limped. Then l started down
the river again and that old skiff leaked SC
badly that I had to work hard to keep
from upsetting. 1 must have got down
twe1ty or twenty-five miles that day, and
at night got intoa slough full Of snags
that came near settling the whole bust
ness. The boat was leaking fast, and SO
decided to leave it. After stopping on
mud bank until morning, | started down
the river again and passed St Charles
Wednesday noon. l got out of the boat be-
low St Charles and planted it where il
was found. l then took the "grip' and
walked eight or nine miles across the
country to some point on the Keo-
kuk road. | took the train there
and went to Louisiana, Mo. 1 was
afraid to buy a paper, and l got out
of the town as quick as | could and
went to Kansas City, stopped in Kansas
City for four or five weeks and had doc
tor attending to my rheum atism. After ]
got well, about December 8, went South
over the Gulf road to Memphis and Vicks.
burg, Atlanta and Savannah At Savannah
picked up an honest young fellow named
Burnham, whose parents live in Baltimore
brought him along with me to Chicago
to watch. He didn't know anything about
| this business, SOL told him that had got
| into trouble in Chicago and wanted him to
| see if any one was laying for me. He was
arrested but was let CO."
| ''What were the circumstances Of your
arrest?"
''Oh, Burnham and went into a little
| saloon near where / kept my coal office,
and three men came in and arrested us
| before we had a chance to fight. Kinney
was to bring me some money that day.
and he and Weaver were arrested to-
! gether about the same time. The Pinker
| tons treated me splendid, and the men
have been with are mighty fine fellows"
''What about the sweat-box or dun
geon?'
'I'll take more of it. / like it. Porter
| house steak and snipe on toast"
| 'Where did you pick up Weaver?"
sIn Chicago He or his wife kept
| faru ma
| I'Where is Kinneyr'
| "He is released, think. He didn't have
anything to do with the business
''He was your brother-in-lawp
'.He was supposed to be,n and here Witt
rock smiled.
'eHow much money was there in the
pile?"
'To tell the truth never counted it, but
there was enough to buy cigars for long
| time"
"Did you try to change any Of the $1,o0
bills?"
"No, didn't have to. There were five
! dollar bills enough to last until 1900"
"You wrote that letter to Frank Jamesr
| Eyes, that was joke. You see, We
were
! PACK OF BOYS
who did the work; not one of US were ever
/ inside of a jail before. The detectives oe
gan to look for pro fessionals on the start
| and that was what fooled 'em. I'd like to
say about Haight that he had nothing to
do with the actual work. The poor fellow
was so hard up in Chicago that he was
| starving. The first thing he did with the
money gave him was to buy two porter
/ house steaks for his family"
| do YOU know how much Of the money
was recoveredf,-
| "All but about 5000. and that'Il be re-
| covered soon. IL was planted everywhere
in bottles, tin cans and in the ground"
''Did you expect to get over slO,O0 when
! you entered the carr"
mo, didn't, it was just luck to strike
big run. Ten thousand would have .one
me-"
''Have any promises of immunity been
made to you!'
''None whatever"
sis it true that your motive IN commit
ting the robbery was to get money to lit
the mortgage on your mothers home"
''It's the truth"
| While Wittrock was talking, Thos,
| Weaver the s1partner who weakeneC,' -